Myrtle Creek Elementary School

Myrtle Creek Elementary School, a small elementary campus in Myrtle Creek, Oregon, part of South Umpqua SD 19, instructs 264 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 6 schools in South Umpqua SD 19 (1,420 students total), Myrtle Creek Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Myrtle Creek Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 12% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Douglas County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Myrtle Creek Elementary School has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Myrtle Creek Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.7%, the actual is 16.6%, a residual of -14.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Douglas County indicate median household income runs about $61,310, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Douglas County runs 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,417 students), of which Myrtle Creek Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Coffenberry Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Myrtle Creek Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 23.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 22%: 338 students in 2018 compared to 264 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 7% to 12%. Class-load math has fell: from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

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